Collection Contents

East Bay Negro Historical Society

Physical Description: 29 folders + 2 bound volumes

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes the society's constitution, profile and history, two volumes of meeting minutes, correspondence to members, programs
and flyers for events, visitor's ledger, scrapbooks, and a financial ledger for membership dues.

Arrangement

Arranged by format.

Administrative files

Box 1:1

Board of trustee’s ballot1987

Box 1:2

Brochurescirca 1970s-1987

Box 1:3

City of Oakland Library Advisory Commission1972-1975

Box 1:4

City of Oakland Summer Youth and Training program1987-1988

Box 1:5

Constitution and by-lawscirca 1965

Box 1:6

Correspondence1968-1983, 1988

Financial records

Box 2

Financial ledger1975-1977

Box 1:7

Invoices1969-1978

Box 1:8

Taxes1970-1988

Box 1:9

Treasurer’s reports1987-1988

Box 1:10

Flyers1986-1988

Box 1:11

Gifts1970-1983

Box 9:6

Guide class training committee1968-1983

Box 9:7

Lecture schedule and notescirca 1980s

Minute books

Box 1:12

1965-1971

Box 1:13

1971-1974

Box 1:14

1982-1986

Box 1:15

1987

Box 1:16

1988

Membership

Dues payment ledger

Box 1:17

1977-1981

Box 1:18

1982-1994

Box 1:19

Membership rosters1986-1992

Box 1:20

Renewal letters1989

Box 1:21

Newspaper clippings 1970-1984

Proclamations

Box OM21

1976-1978

Box 1:22

1986-1989

Box 1:23

Profile and history1980

Box 1:24

Programs1971-1985

Box 1:25

Proposals 1970, 1977

Box 1:26

Publication,
The Chronicle of Black History, Vol. 1 No. 11978

Box 1:27

Reports 1974-1978

Box 1:28

Slideshow program transcripts 1982 and undated

Box 1:29

Statement of domestic corporation1971

Box 2

Visitor’s register1970-1980

Scrapbooks

Physical Description: 6 volumes

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes a book of remembrance with handwritten notes about the genealogy of East Bay families, a scrapbook containing newspaper
clippings of Raymond Lowry's, “The Negro in History” column, and four scrapbooks with assorted programs, correspondence, newspaper
clippings, and photographs.

Arrangement

Arranged by format and thereafter by date.

Box 3

Book of remembranceundated

Box 3

Scrapbook vol. 11965-1973

Box 4

Scrapbook vol. 21974-1979

Box 5

Scrapbook vol. 31980-1981

Box 5

Scrapbook vol. 41984-1985

Box 5

Scrapbook compendium of Raymond Lowry,
The Negro in History newspaper articles
1969-1970

Northern California Center for Afro-American History & Life (NCCAAHL) Records

Physical Description: 55 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes the NCCAAHL articles of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, exhibit files, meeting minutes, publications, and
records related to the center's merger with the Oakland Public Library.

Arrangement

Arranged into two subseries: administrative files and publications.

Administrative records

Box 6:1

Annual awards dinner [two copies]1991

Box 6:2

Articles of incorporation1989

Box 6:3

Board of trustees1996 and undated

Box 6:4

Clorox Company Foundation grant application1991

Box 6:5

“Comments of C. Bruce Lee to request of Bill Thurston for board members ideas of board function” [cassette tape]1997

Box 6:6

Constitution and by-laws 1989-1992

Box 6:7-9

Correspondence1987-1993

Exhibits

Box 6:10

Threads of Strength exhibit1990

Visions Toward Tomorrow exhibit

Box 6:11

“A special vision Richmond’s Afro-American community in retrospect”1987-1988

Box 6:12

Correspondence1989-1990

Box 6:13

Documentary film financial records1990

Box 6:14

Final evaluation report1987

Box 6:15

Poster [4 copies]1989

Box 6:16

Project budget1987

Box 6:17

Statement of agreement1990

Box 9:5

Teacher's guide1990

Financial records

Box 6:18

Budget reports1989-1992

Box 6:19

Projected budget 1990

Box 6:20

Tax exemption1990

Box 6:21

Tax returns1989-1990

Box 6:22

Forms [blank]circa 1990

Inventory report

Box 6:23

Volume 11994

Box 6:24

Volume 21994

Meeting minutes

Box 6:25-28

1989-1993

Box 7:1

1994-1995

Membership

Box 7:2

Membership rosters/dues ledgers1989-1993

Box 7:3

Renewal letters1989

Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life and Oakland Public Library merger

Box 7:4

“Agreement between City of Oakland and the Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life and the creation
of the African American Museum and Library of the City of Oakland”
1995

Box 7:5

Merger discussion agenda1994

Box 7:6-8

Planning binder1993-1994

Box 7:9

“Proposed terms for program merger of the Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life with the Oakland Public
Library”
1994

Box 7:10

Retreat1993-1994

Box 7:11

Signing ceremony 1994

Box 7:12

Organizational history and purposecirca 1990s

Publications

Box 7:13

Annual report1989

Box 7:14

Brochurescirca 1990s

Box 7:15

Flyers1988-1997

From the Archives newsletters

Box 7:16

Vol. 1, no. 1-31990

Box 7:17

Vol. 2, no. 1-31991

Box 7:18

Vol. 3, no. 1-21992

Box 7:19

Vol. 4, no. 1-31993

Box 7:20

Vol. 5, no. 1-31994

Box 7:21

Vol. 6, no. 31995-1996

Box 7:22

Vol. 7, no. 11996

Box 7:23

Vol. 7, no. 2-31997-1998

Box 7:24

Indexundated

Box 7:25

The Center newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, 2001

Box 7:26

Newspaper clippings1976-1993

Photographs

Physical Description: 614 photographs

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes photographs documenting donors, exhibits, programming events, and staff of the East Bay Negro Historical Society
and the Northern California Center for Afro-American History & Life. Also included are photographs of a planning retreat and
signing ceremony of the merger between the Northern California Center for Afro-American History & Life and the Oakland Public
Library.